Globalization Insider

In this issue…

A Call For Action • Colin Brace, Editor and Publisher, The Language Industry Monitor
Getting Ready for the Japanese Market • Jan Pfefferkorn, Director, Language Automation Inc.
Design of a Translation Tool for Oracle Products • Kevin Wharton, Oracle Corporation
LISA in Heidelberg not to be Missed!
LOGOS Corporation reorganizes with new management team and financing
LISA Mission Statement
LISA’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
The LISA Forum (31 January - 1 February, 1994)
ELSNET Survey of Language Engineering Organisations in Central and Eastern Europe and New Independent States LRE Project 62-200
Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora (MULTEXT)
Document Alignment Techniques and Consistency Checking
Merry Christmas to All, and to All a Good Translation

The LISA Forum (31 January - 1 February, 1994)

31 January - 1 February, 1994, Hosted by Lotus Development Corporation Europe, Runnymede Hotel Windsor,England

The LISA Forum's January program is shaping up. Those of you with an interest in the Far-East markets and languages will want to participate. The emphasis will be on Internationalization and Localization Issues for the Asian Markets. A new Tools and Technology SIG will be launched along with updates from the Benchmarking and Language QA Evaluation projects.

Here is an overview of the agenda:

Operation Reviews
- Lotus Development Europe
- Rank Xerox Technical Centre
- Mendez Translations
Special Interest Groups (SIG) Procedures, Reviews and Proposals
- Localization Benchmarking
- Language QA and Evaluation
- Language Processing Technology & Tools
- Language Technology Resources for Eastern Europe and Asia
Localizing versus Enabling Products for the Asian Markets
- Basics of Japanese software engineering and an outlook towards future multilingual software development (a case study and product demonstration)
- Japanese 1-2-3 (a Lotus case study)
- Enabling products for international markets (a focus on engineering and manufacturing problems)
- The similarities and differences between Asian and European localization
- Engineering tasks and internationalization processes to support Japanese language variants
Demonstration of the Lotus Far East Group's proprietary Help, Authoring and Translation Support System